In which I am a dumb ass
Dec. 3rd, 2003 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeWatched Rosencrantz and Guildentern are Dead for the third time today and only JUST realised how the whole lot fits together. Well, I'm sure I'm still missing stuff but at least I get it now.
See, before I used to take it at face value that they continued on to Elsinore. IRL. Perhaps it can still be read that way but the ending confused the hell out of me. Anyway, I figured out that the whole thing was still a play (which brought to life a whole bunch of lines that seemed funny but irrelevant). But the best thing is, while I like it that they die at the end I still wish they didn't and now it's even remotely plausible - after all, actors only ever APPEAR to die.
Oh damn, but how to reconcile that with the fact that they really do seem to be R&G? And not two hapless guys who join in a play? If they are the real R&G, how could the Player already know the story of Hamlet? Ok, I need to see it again.
Man I love this movie, it can be read in so many ways. And the layers of meta - bliss!
ETA: Also watched Casablanca (also for the third time!) today and really, I just have to note that that is one of the sharpest scripts ever. It may have a clunker or two but on the whole it is just exquisitely written. If you've not seen the movie you really must. Humphrey Bogart - swoon! Peter Lorre - squeee!
Meanwhile, tomorrow I finally get to pick up Superman/Batman #4. Yay!
See, before I used to take it at face value that they continued on to Elsinore. IRL. Perhaps it can still be read that way but the ending confused the hell out of me. Anyway, I figured out that the whole thing was still a play (which brought to life a whole bunch of lines that seemed funny but irrelevant). But the best thing is, while I like it that they die at the end I still wish they didn't and now it's even remotely plausible - after all, actors only ever APPEAR to die.
Oh damn, but how to reconcile that with the fact that they really do seem to be R&G? And not two hapless guys who join in a play? If they are the real R&G, how could the Player already know the story of Hamlet? Ok, I need to see it again.
Man I love this movie, it can be read in so many ways. And the layers of meta - bliss!
ETA: Also watched Casablanca (also for the third time!) today and really, I just have to note that that is one of the sharpest scripts ever. It may have a clunker or two but on the whole it is just exquisitely written. If you've not seen the movie you really must. Humphrey Bogart - swoon! Peter Lorre - squeee!
Meanwhile, tomorrow I finally get to pick up Superman/Batman #4. Yay!
